Machine foe making axes



` UNITED sTaTns PATENT on ISAAC W. TURNER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

MACHINE FOR MAKING .AXS.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 2,841, datedNovember 4, 1842. p

bv a dro as shown inthe drawing a screw I). :3,: 7

a roller or a wedge pressure In the drawing a, a, Figure l, represents `,the base or platform;lb, thel foundation hammer or anvil, being apiece of heavy metal `that may weigh 500.1bs., or more.

c, c, are wood uprights say 2O ,feet or more high, faced with iron next to the drop hammer, (Z, this hammer mayhavethe sameiorm and weight as the anvil. The hammer (Z, is raised by the iwindlass e, and the rope f, j", and the attaching and detaching apparatus.. g, Zt. As apparatustor this pur# Vpose is variously constructed, and as I cla-im nothing of the kindI need not particularize it. It will `be -seen that the hammer (Z, is for the purpose oit compressing and welding.

The metal being subjectedto its drop or fall, and there being a suitable die, as z', attached to the taceV ot the drop hammer, y'

' and 7c, are two other'pieces of a die placed on the anvil. At the outsides as Z Z and Z Z, there are straps connected by a hinge bolt to the pieces of dies; these straps pass around the uprights c, c, and are bolted to the levers n, n, as at 0, 0. The stationary pieces or straps 7), p, are the fulcrums or" the levers n, n, g. is a bolt that connects the piece oi die 7c or kx and the straps m, m, together; this die 7c* and strap m, explain the corresponding ones, on the lett. l

Between the uprights o, c, and the levers fn, r/z,are placed springs v, fu, to throw the dies j and a, apart for the introduction of a piece of metal to be operated upon. It will be seen that when the drop hammer is up and the apparatus g, lets go thehammer CZ, the straps s, s, pass over the upper ends of the levers ma, and bring the dies together and hold them firmly, the levers being wedged downward so as to suffer the straps s, s, to increase their pressure.

F ig. 2 represents a bent piece of iron, pre- .pared by hand or otherwise, for the pole and body of an ax, with a steel eye pin, as Z.

In thisform it is heated and placed on the 6o 1 die j, Fig. 1, which die is constructed in form of an ax. The hammer CZ, with the tace die z, is'now let fall and by one operation the piece Fig. 2, is shaped, and welded. into the pole and body of an ax with the eye.

'I` his pole and body, is next placed between two dies as seen at Fig. 3, where u, u, Vare similar pieces, and fv, fr, is the pole and body of the ax placed in a posit-ion to receive this opening or cut for the blade or bit. This cut is made by the blade :r `Fig. 5, of t-he piece which is attached under the drop C Z tor that purpose. n

The bit or blade is made by the die Fig. 6, which consists of 2 pieces, one placed on the anvil, as the other dies are, and the other to the drop cZ; this die is sunkas at l, l, to

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receive a piece ot steel, previously prepared,

of proper size andcurve and placed in, and

when the drop comes down the raised edge as at 2. cuts the surplus end off. This bit is heated' and taken to die Fig. 7, which being placed under the drop' with itscorre-Y sponding part, Fig. 8, "attached to lthe drop (Z, the ax is formed and completed except edging with the hand hammer and grinding'.

What I claim as my invention and' desire to secure by Letters Patent isy The method of forcing or hugging the pieces of dies as for instance andv 7c, up

together horizontally on the anvil ZJ, by the levers 1t, n, and straps Z, Z, &c., and the ful-A crums, 79, 7J, while the top piece of the diei," Vattached, under the dropV or pressing hamv Vmer (Z, is forcing downward, as before de?V scribed and represented lin Figui,Y for.; the

purpose of constructing axes and othertools.

is now ptit into the cut of Fig. t, and the ax Y 

